Abstract
This paper describes how a Small Grants initiative evolved to support the aims of a large, multi-sector community-university research project. It explores how the giving of small amounts of project funding to community groups enabled a deepening of community engaged scholarship across a large community-university research alliance. We present the Think&EatGreen@School Small Grants initiative as a case study on how the distribution of small amounts of funding can encourage the role of community voices in research, create opportunities for resource and knowledge sharing, generate rich information and valuable data, support and contribute to networks of support and resource sharing, and articulate the interests of a broad diversity of stakeholders.
Highlights
This paper describes how a Small Grants Initiative emerged as an important part of the process of ensuring community participation and engagement in the Think&EatGreen@ School research project (TEGS)
Conclusion the Small Grants initiative was not initially included in the original TEGS research grant application submitted to SSHRCC, which only stated the intention of developing “Community Impacts Projects” to be elaborated with the school communities, it emerged as a key tool for conducting community-engaged scholarship and became an integral part of the overall TEGS Project
The Small Grants initiative demonstrated that TEGS explicitly valued the role of school community voices within the Project, contributed alongside other TEGS initiatives to create opportunities for resource and knowledge sharing, generated rich information and valuable data, supported and contributed to form critical networks of support and resource sharing, and sought to articulate the interests of a broad diversity of stakeholders
Summary
This paper describes how a Small Grants Initiative emerged as an important part of the process of ensuring community participation and engagement in the Think&EatGreen@ School research project (TEGS). The Small Grants Initiative was created by the TEGS project as a way to support the engagement of school communities in school-based healthy and sustainable food system projects in Vancouver public schools.
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